Tag: personal growth
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What “counts” for you?
“But the choice you can make is to stop believing you’ll ever solve the challenge of busyness by cramming more in, because that just makes matters worse.” – Oliver Burkeman
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Where are you going?
“You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going ‘cause you might not get there.”
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Ashamed to ask for help
It’s challenging work going it alone, simultaneously fighting all your battles on every front. It’s tough to reinvent the wheel every day, learn everything from scratch, and feel like you have to do it all yourself.
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It’s ok to be uncomfortable
For some strange reason, we are generally not comfortable being uncomfortable. We enter new territory, and we lose our grip. We get stressed, and we freak out. The reality is that things are outside our control much of the time, and we get by just fine. We just don’t focus on it. Part of living…
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Choose growth
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” Abraham Maslow We often come to a fork in the road, which usually boils down to two options – do I take the path of least resistance? Or do…
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Seeking more meaning, purpose and fulfilment
What are three things to ask someone seeking more meaning, purpose and fulfilment? “What do they love doing? What are they good at doing? What does the world need from them?” Jacqueline Novogratz We get hung up on searching for “our passion”. We feel guilty about not having some superhero career. We would like to…
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Capitalise on the energy of big ideas
So the trick is, when you have the idea, capture it. Don’t lose it. Carry a notebook, keep a digital notebook on your phone, or even talk about it with someone nearby—anything to not let that precious idea slip away.
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Reduce busywork for more impact
It’s easy to get caught up in busywork. You know those simple tasks that we can breeze through, like getting our email inbox down to zero. It makes us feel productive and gives a sense we are moving forward. We can proudly proclaim we are ‘busy’. But is this busywork actually moving us where we…
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Better holidays
“We often live with a forward momentum. When you suddenly stop, it can feel like musical chairs, and the music has just stopped and your standing there and you don’t have a chair. And that’s really disconcerting, because part of what we do, which I think leads to a lot of burnout and existential struggle,…
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Simply begin
“Simply begin. Make things better by making things. You can always improve it later” Seth Godin I love the line – “make things better by making things”. How good is that feeling of self-accomplishment when we actually make something that is valuable or meaningful to us. By making things we also make ourselves better. It…